Michael Quattrone (he/him) is the author of the chapbook, Rhinoceroses (New School, 2007), selected for the New School Chapbook Award by Olena Kalytiak Davis. His first, full-length manuscript, By Morning, was recently named a runner-up for the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize judged by Maya C. Popa.

Recent publications include Bennington Review, Epiphany Magazine, and Poet Lore. Michael interviewed Westchester Poet Laureate, Phylisha Villanueva, John Murillo, and Iain Haley Pollock for The Westchester Review.

You can hear Michael read “The Kingdom” in The Night Heron Barks, “Humans” in EcoTheo Review, and “Remember My Body” in Cider Press Review. You can watch him recite “Tomorrow,” as part of ArtsWestchester’s Emergence Pop-Up Poetry series (2021).

Michael’s poems were
first introduced by David Lehman
in the 2005 “Best New Poets” issue of Octopus Magazine. From 2007 to 2011, Michael curated the KGB Bar’s Monday night poetry series with comrades Laura Cronk and Megin Jiménez. Together, they hosted over one hundred emerging and nationally renowned poets at the legendary East Village venue (with only one bar fight).

Michael lives in Tarrytown, New York, where he serves as Board Chair of the Hudson Valley Writers Center.